Biography
John Swihart (born 1964) is an American musical composer for film and television. Some of his best known scores include the films Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Employee of the Month (2006), Youth in Revolt (2009), and television shows How I Met Your Mother (2005 - 2014), and Go On (2012 - 2013). Swihart was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the adopted son of a physicist based at Indiana University. He attended Berklee College of Music, in Boston, graduating in 1986. Prior to becoming a film and television composer, he performed in shows as a multi-instrumentalist for the Blue Man Group.
Filmography40 titles
How I Met Your Mother
Dinner in America
The Other Zoey
Odd Thomas
The Young Kieslowski
Napoleon Dynamite
The Goodwin Games
Ideal Home
Flypaper
The Perfect Host
First Girl I Loved
The Other Woman
Youth in Revolt
Our Very Own
Table 19
For a Good Time, Call...
Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This
The Education of Charlie Banks
The Sasquatch Gang
New in Town
Accidentally on Purpose
Garden Party
The Last Word
Staten Island Summer
Spread
Employee of the Month
Haunting on Fraternity Row
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
We Are Men
The Violent Heart
Full of It
Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
Just Add Water
The Brothers Solomon
Lucky
Finding Bliss
The Fanatic
Accidental Love
The Year of Getting to Know Us
As Night Comes